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1898269122New York: R.H. Russell 1898. First. hardcover. very good-. Nicholson William. Illustrated with 12 colored plates after woodcuts by William Nicholson with text in facing pages. Thin folio pictorial boards well-worn at edges and with some soiling and light penciling on covers; contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper. New York: R.H. Russell 1898. First American edition.<br/> <br/> Overall a very good- copy. All the plates are in clean condition with some offset to the opposite text pages as usual. There is one rather large purplish stain on Horse Racing text page the rear of Dog Coursing plate but images are un-effected.<br/> <br/> R.H. Russell unknown
1898122250London: Heinemann 1898. hardcover. very good. Nicholson William. Illustrated with 13 tinted linoleum cuts by William Nicholson. Short slim folio handsomely bound in full brown morocco; gilt-stamped and inlaid with red morocco rosettes on covers raised bands inner dentelles. London: Heinemann 1898 story clippings range from 1914-1917. Very good.<br/> <br/> The pamphlet in original pictorial wrappers is bound-in along with a unique well-planned 33 page scrapbook of neatly mounted Kipling stories taken from illustrated journals such as the Saturday Evening Post The Daily Express London and the Detroit Free Press Christmas Edition. Also includes the 8 page song sheet for "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" with words written by Kipling.<br/> <br/> Heinemann unknown
1893228647Boston Perry Mason & Co. 1893. 1893. First edition thus. Folio. Complete issue pages 501-512. Illustrations. Some tears and old repairs at folds. Enclosed in 1/2 brown morocco slipcase. Scarce. Kipling's contribution appears on pages 506 507. See Livingston p. 171 #140. Soft cover. Very Good. Boston [Perry Mason & Co.] 1893. paperback
1892045599New York: Macmillan & Co. 1892 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. A series of songs and poems expressing a popular view of the common soldiers and sailors of the British imperial forces in late Victorian times. Written in popular dialects with memorable verses and cadencies Danny Deever Gunga Din Mandalay they appealed to all levels of the pubic and were recited and sung everywhere with patriotic enthusiasm. First American edition of this anthology The UK edition was issued a few days later under the shorter title of "Barrack Room Ballads' Neat dark blue binding with gilding on spine on top of text block and on the horse motif on the front cover. 207p 8p of Ads.Crisp tight unmarked text.The leaf before the half title is missing else fine Richards A68; Stewart 109 . Macmillan & Co. hardcover
1892000037New York: Macmillan and Co 1892. Hardcover. Very Good/No jacket as issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 207 pp. with 8 pages of ads. Blue cloth decorated in gilt. Light edge wear particularly at crown and foot of spine. Very Good. Macmillan and Co hardcover
189211979New York: Macmillan 1892 First American Edition. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold. 8vo. 207 8 pages ads. Pictorial gilt decoration on upper part of front cover - Indian holding a saddled horse. Includes a nice collection of very old newspaper articles relating to Kiping originally in envelope glued to back board. Front hinge split and rear hinge weak. Cover has a little wear at corners. no jacket. Good minus condition. Macmillan hardcover
1899020391Alex Grosset and Company. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt titles on front and spine. No DJ. . Fine. Hardcover. 1899. Alex Grosset and Company hardcover
189942031New York Crowell 1899 hardcover. Includes four color plates by W.William St John Harper. Extra title-page decoration and presumably the gilt cover decoration by TBH Theodore Brown Hapgood. -- Hardcover bright gilt cover art 253 pages. Condition: very good minus lavender cloth cover is lightly and irregularly sunned; foxing to outer pages including the Hapgood woodcut margins; no jacket issued. Crowell hardcover
19000101492<p>Red cloth bound boards with gold lettering to spine. Spine faded. Inscription to front - Yealering West Australia 1929.<br />Some small signs of age spotting.</p> A.L.Burt and Company hardcover
1892033583Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co 1892. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. 208pp. Brick cloth boards gilt titles on spine. Binding secure spine straight corners a bit bumped. FFEP loose but still attached. Slight foxing to pages prior to body of text. Clean unmarked text block apart from the expected age toning. Deckle edged pages. 16pp of publisher's ads in back. Rear hinge just showing. Variously credited as first Indian edition printed from the English sheets and third edition. Either way an early Kipling edition hailing from Calcutta. Scarce. Thacker, Spink & Co Hardcover
1898019357M.F. Mansfield & Co. Spine lightly sunned. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1898. M.F. Mansfield & Co. hardcover
189201AIR0182.<p>Original boards rubbed lightly stained and faded especially on spine. Top page edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Some tanning and foxing most notably of edges and end-papers. Personal <em>ex libris</em> book plate paasted onto front end-paper. Title page vignette. 16 page booklist appended at rear.</p> Methuen & Co. hardcover
1898blb06142New York: M.F. Mansfield & Co. 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth with bright gilt lettering rulings and swords to front and titling to spine. Small book is tight square sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out. Book is Near Fine. Nicely illustarted with one-color plates and tissue guards. Top edge gilt. Matching volume is available with us as well - Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. M.F. Mansfield & Co. hardcover
189823606M.F. Mansfield 1898. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. M.F. Mansfieldcirca 1898 no date stated. Hard Cover. Top edge gilt. Red boards with gilt decoration and titles.Frontipieces to both collections are present. Cover has mild shelfwear spine is faded. Pages are clean and unmarked slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy. This collection captures the voices of common British soldiers 'Tommies' during the height of the British Empire using accessible rhythms vivid vernacular and a deeply ironic sense of patriotism and service.His work raises uncomfortable questions about empire class and race. For readers interested in British history colonial literature or the evolution of poetic voice this remains an essential if challenging read. M.F. Mansfield hardcover
1892119266New York: United States Book Company 1892. Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. United States Book Company unknown
18921206041892. Scarce unauthorized edition of perhaps Kipling's most popular poetry collection. Octavo original wrappers. In very good condition. This collection was so popular upon publication in 1892 it was pirated in a small number of unauthorized editions which were sold on the streets of London and quickly suppressed. Housed in a custom chemise case. Scarce. In the short span of four years English author Rudyard Kipling produced in addition to the Jungle Books a collection of short stories The Day's Work a novel Captains Courageous and a profusion of poetry including the volume The Seven Seas. The collection of Barrack-Room Ballads was issued in March 1892 first published individually for the most part in 1890 and containing his poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din". unknown
19000102205<p>Methuen & Co.; 1900. Red/Orange cloth covered boards. Ex Library book. Faded to edges. Gilt lettering to spine. Page edges seem to be hand cut. Corners bumped. Mild foxing to end papers. Previous owners hospital library book plate to first paste down and cardboard ticket wallet to rear. Preowned. No ISBN.</p> Methuen and Co. hardcover
189927408NY: Thomas Y. Crowell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Reprint. Hardcover. Some smudges of soil on the decorated light blue cloth covers. Signed by Kipling on the title page. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 253 pages; Signed by Author . Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover
189996168London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes 1899. Finely bound early printings of Kipling's collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. Bookplate to each pastedown. Written in vernacular dialect Kipling's The Barrack Room Ballads contains some of Kipling's most well-known work including the poems "Gunga Din" "Tommy" "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" which established his early fame as a poet. The first poems were published in the Scots Observer in the first half of 1890 and collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses in 1892. Kipling later returned to the theme in a group of poems collected in The Seven Seas under the same title. A third group of vernacular Army poems from the Boer War titled "Service Songs" and published in The Five Nations 1903 can be considered part of the Ballads as can a number of other uncollected pieces. Methuen and Co. and George Newnes hardcover
1892KIPLINGR028319Methuen London. 1892. Fourth edition : scarce issue in white parchment with gilt bugler device on front top edge gilt. Octavo. pp xx 208 16 adverts. The first title listed in the adverts is this fourth edition with mention of ''a special Presentation Edition bound in white buckram with extra gilt ornament''. Is it possible that in the event the publishers opted for this parchment binding instead of the buckramCovers slightly marked. Spine slightly darkened. Very good indeed. Methuen, London. hardcover
18921532London: Methuen And Co. 1892. first edition without limitation statement on copyright page. VG bottom corner tips are a little rubbed otherwise book is clean tight. A very handsome copy. ; 8vo finely bound in 3/4 red leather with marbled boards top edges gilt others uncut. Raised bands marbled endpapers LIMITED TO 225 LARGE PAPER COPIES this was the variant issue which was handsomely rebound in 3/4 leather. On the front endpaper is a mounted limitation statement which reads: "Of this Edition on Dutch Paper 225 Copies have been printed of which 200 are for sale. No. 11" This statement appears to have been added later. A scarce issue. . Methuen And Co. hardcover
18993988London Methuen 1899. 1899. Early edition. Small 8vo. Title page vignette. 3/4 contemporary red morocco over marbled boards by Bumpus spine with raised bands gilt stamped titles and musical devices drums and horns marbled endpapers t.e.g. uncut slight rubbing. Very good. 208 pages. Bookplate of Oliver Brett son of Viscount Esher. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Methuen, 1899. hardcover
1892001667London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1892. Third Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾. xix 208 16 page publisher's cat. vignette to title page brown buckram with gilt titles to spine teg corners and head and tail of spine bruised some light foxing and finger marks. Presentation inscription "To Harry From A.S.S. and P.R.S September 13-92". Harry is Harry leslie Sherwood who entered the Foreign Office in 1882 rising to become Inspector General of H.M. Consulates and editor of the F.O. List-the donors are assumed to be members of his family. The book contains 2 press cuttings including the first printed version of "The Absent-minded Beggar" published by the Daily Mail on 31st October 1899. The poem is headed "Rudyard Kipling's New Poem" with "Copyright in England and America by the "Daily Mail" publishing company." Although there is no date on the newspaper indications are that it was printed in 1899. The rights to publish had been given by Kipling to Lord Harmsworth proprietor of the Daily Mail who had made a request to Kipling to write a patriotic poem to support the fund-raising for the mobilistation of army reservists in 1899 to fight in South Africa. <br/> <br/> Methuen and Co. Ltd. hardcover
190019New York: A. L. Burt Company 1900. Biographical sketch by Henry Ketcham. Red covered cloth/hardcover with gilt lettering in Good/Fair condition. Cover is missing a piece on bottom and top of spine from shelf wear. Pages front and back cover and binding are all in excellent condition. A real find. A. L. Burt Company hardcover
189086272Allahabad and London: A.H. Wheeler & Co. and Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. First English editions except for Soldiers Three which lacks the Allahabad imprint and is the fourth English edition. Bound in red silk over boards with all wrappers and at least some of the ads bound in at the rear. Top corners bumped a bit of rubbing at the spine ends very good internally near fine. Bookplate of Wilfred Sheridan direct descendent of dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and husband of Clare Frewen Sheridan the artist writer adventurer gadfly and cousin of Winston Churchill on the front pastedown. Signature of Clare Sheridan's brother on the front fly: "Oswald Frewen H.M.S. Comus 1916." Later signature of an American novelist. Four separate Kipling works published as numbers 1-4 in the Indian Railway Library. A.H. Wheeler & Co. and Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington hardcover